THE GREAT FILTER THEORY
Part 1. On “Weakness” and Judgement
I think, most people are afraid of weakness so they are repulsed by it when they see weakness in others. I think, for the most part, they fear weakness because they themselves are weak and weakness, or the absence of energy, leads to death when it is stressed beyond its limit. They don’t like having some abstracted version of their own limitations boasting their extinction to them through a filter. They hate themselves, first and foremost because they can’t save themselves.
Part 2. The Great Filter
The Great Filter theory reminds me of an existential threat I feel among my own kind. Have I gone beyond a Great Filter? Chances are, I am stuck behind the great dividing chasm that separates me, the unconscious prosumer from the authentic producer.